A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
{by ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.) BURSTING OF A BIG GUN. TWO MEN KILLED AND MANY INJURED. (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, March 30. A terrible accident occurred at the Easter manoeuvres at Queenscliff. While Corporal Buaily and Gunner Donaldson, of the Geelong Battery, were closing the breech-lock of the six-inch Armstrong gun, the gun exploded, and both men were mangled beyond recognition, nothing being left on their bodies but their boots. , , Other men belonging to the detachment were sent reeling about in blinding smoke, streaming with blood, and are badly scorched. Lieutenant Munro and Gunners Notts, Heighton, and Diggan, who were close to the gun which exploded, are severely but not dangerously hurt. _ Colonels Price and Goldstein, Captain Uphelby, and other officers, dashed up to the battery and recovered the wounded. The cause of the explosion is at present unknown.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 996, 3 April 1891, Page 29
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141A TERRIBLE DISASTER. New Zealand Mail, Issue 996, 3 April 1891, Page 29
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